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Professional Learning and Collaboration for Teaching with HyperDocs
Torrey Trust; Jeffrey Carpenter; Tim Green
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2020 (Apr 07, 2020) pp. 1886–1893
Social technologies can create new opportunities for teachers to collaborate and share teaching and learning activities. HyperDocs – interactive, digital teaching and learning materials created, disseminated, and remixed by educators – are an...
Topics: New Possibilities with Information Technologies, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies, Social Media
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For the Longest Time: Continuity and Change in One Teaching-Related Subreddit
K. Bret Staudt Willet; Jeffrey P. Carpenter
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2020 (Apr 07, 2020) pp. 1490–1496
Social media are a relatively new phenomena, and the empirical literature remains underdeveloped. In particular, knowledge is lacking regarding how educators’ social media use potentially changes over time. The purpose of this study is to contribute ...
Topics: Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies, Social Media
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Taking Stock of TeachersPayTeachers.com: Analyzing Four Million Classroom Resources
Catharyn Shelton; Matthew Koehler; Jeffrey Carpenter; Spencer Greenhalgh
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2020 (Apr 07, 2020) pp. 1477–1482
TeachersPayTeachers.com (TpT) is a popular online educational marketplace where educators exchange classroom and instructional materials. Despite indications of significant use of TpT, the existing empirical research on the platform and its users is ...
Topics: Social Media
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Obstacles, Travails, and Barriers, Oh My! Educators’ Perspectives on Challenges in Professional Social Media Use
Jeffrey Carpenter; Stephen Harvey
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2019 (Mar 18, 2019) pp. 2692–2701
Social media such as Twitter and Facebook have become venues for self-directed professional activity for some educators. Although these professional activities are generally voluntary in nature and thus must provide some benefits and/or...
Topics: Social Media, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies, Mobile Learning
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Exploring Continuity and Change in Educators’ Professional Learning Networks
Jeffrey Carpenter; Daniel Krutka; Torrey Trust
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2019 (Mar 18, 2019) pp. 2680–2685
Recent years have seen many educators leverage social media to develop professional learning networks (PLNs) that extend beyond their individual schools and districts. There is, however, limited knowledge regarding how these PLNs change over time....
Topics: Social Media, Mobile Learning, New Possibilities with Information Technologies
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Educators on the Front Page of the Internet: Education-Related Subreddits as Learning Spaces
K. Bret Staudt Willet; Jeffrey Carpenter
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2019 (Mar 18, 2019) pp. 2787–2795
Accessing and contributing to online spaces have become regular parts of many educators’ professional activities. However, the popular discussion forum website Reddit has received little attention from educational researchers despite the presence of ...
Topics: New Possibilities with Information Technologies, Social Media, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies
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Exploring How and Why Educators Use Instagram
Jeffrey Carpenter; Scott Morrison; Madeline Craft; Michalene Lee
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2019 (Mar 18, 2019) pp. 2686–2691
This paper reports on an in-progress study of educators’ professional uses of Instagram. We created an online survey that we disseminated via various social media channels during late fall of 2018. Preliminary analyses of the responses from 841...
Topics: Mobile Learning, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies, Social Media
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Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam: Methodological Considerations and Challenges for Studying Educators’ Twitter Use
Jeffrey Carpenter; Matthew Koehler; K. Bret Staudt Willet; Spencer P. Greenhalgh
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2019 (Mar 18, 2019) pp. 2702–2711
Social media have come to play an important role in the professional lives of many educators. Platforms such as Twitter create new spaces in which collegial contact can occur, opening up various avenues for support and development. These spaces,...
Topics: Mobile Learning, Research & Evaluation, Social Media
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Expanding Professional Learning Networks through an Institutional Twitter Hashtag
Jeffrey Carpenter; Scott Morrison
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2018 (Mar 26, 2018) pp. 2216–2221
This paper explores in-progress research on our use of an institutional Twitter hashtag designed to increase interaction and expand professional learning networks (PLNs) among pre-service teachers (PST), alumni teaching across the country, faculty...
Topics: Mobile Learning, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies, Social Media
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Twitter + Voxer: Educators’ Complementary Uses of Multiple Social Media
Jeffrey Carpenter; Tim Green
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2018 (Mar 26, 2018) pp. 2236–2244
Social media such as Facebook and Pinterest have become sites of self-directed professional learning and networking for some educators In this paper, we describe how educators combine the use of two specific digital tools, Twitter and Voxer, for...
Topics: New Possibilities with Information Technologies, Mobile Learning, Social Media
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Exploring How and Why Educators Use Pinterest
Jeffrey Carpenter; Amanda Cassaday; Stefania Monti
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2018 (Mar 26, 2018) pp. 2222–2229
This paper reports on a study of educators’ uses of Pinterest We conducted semi-structured interviews with eight educators in order to explore how and why they utilized Pinterest for professional purposes We present findings from our thematic...
Topics: New Possibilities with Information Technologies, Mobile Learning, Social Media
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Advice Seeking and Giving in the Reddit r/Teachers Online Space
Jeffrey Carpenter; Connor McDade; Samantha Childers
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2018 (Mar 26, 2018) pp. 2207–2215
Reddit is a social media platform that allows users to share, vote on, and discuss content In order to understand how educators have taken advantage of Reddit’s affordances, this paper explores the nature of posts to a subreddit focused on teachers, ...
Topics: New Possibilities with Information Technologies, Mobile Learning, Social Media
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Exploring the Education Twitter Hashtag Landscape
Jeffrey Carpenter; Tania Tani; Scott Morrison; Julie Keane
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2018 (Mar 26, 2018) pp. 2230–2235
In recent years, Twitter has become an important tool for educator professional learning and community. While education has often proven to be an isolating profession, social media such as Twitter open up opportunities for teachers to collaborate...
Topics: New Possibilities with Information Technologies, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies, Social Media